Imagine this scenario: you’re walking through the parking lot of a multi-office office park. You pass an empty car with its headlights on. The car is unlocked and there is no one else around. Enough offices are in the office park to make it impractical to notify every one. Leaving a note on the windshield would be funny but obviously pointless.
What do you do? Do you enter the car and turn off the lights? Or, do you respect the owner’s property but leave it to slowly drain the battery?
What would you do?
Growing up in the country, my first instinct would be to open the door and turn the lights off.
Uh, no. Growing up in the country, your instinct would be to “cut ’em off.” This of course would be accomplished by “mashing” the appropriate button.
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On the one hand, it would be polite to turn off the headlights and save their battery. On the other hand, I wouldn’t want some twit to think that I was breaking into the car.
Since the odds of finding the owner are so slim, I’d probably turn off the lights and lock the doors (and if they left their keys in the car, oh well…).